title: [Rationalization of Protestant nursing. A comparison of Deaconess Motherhouses in West Germany and the United States, 1945-1970].
abstract: Protestant Deaconess Motherhouses emerged as a German nursing organization in the nineteenth century to be later exported to many other countries including the United States. The motherhouse principle could not be simply transferred without being adapted to the situation prevailing in each of those countries. The essay investigates the conception and transformation of Protestant nursing by comparing a West German and American deaconess motherhouse each in their particular context. It shows that the deaconesses in the United States developed their own, more scientifically oriented understanding of nursing and were therefore more open to the rationalization of nursing than their West German counterpart.
authors.affiliation: Fachhochschule Münster, Fachbereich Pflege und Gesundheit, Münster. kreutzer@fh-muenster.de
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kreutzer
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000266:history*; D033303:Protestantism / Q000266:history*; D011908:Rationalization; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States